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The Brazilian was axed by the Blues in February 2009 after less than a year in charge with reports suggesting his struggles to speak fluent English were to blame.

But Scolari has poured water on those claims - instead laying the blame at the door of former Arsenal and Liverpool striker Anelka.

When Didier Drogba returned from injury, Scolari says he met with his forwards and explained that one of them would have to play from the wing, and that's when things started to go wrong.

"I had Anelka playing up front. Nine. Top scorer in the league," Scolari told ESPN Brazil.

"The players return, I make a meeting, and in the meeting I say: 'Look, now that the players have all returned, Drogba is back after two months, we will try to work a situation involving the two attackers playing one by the side, one in the centre, changing positions'.

"Then Anelka, the league’s top scorer, said: 'I do not play on the wing'. Well, that’s when I said: 'You don’t play on the wing, one’s going to be on the left, it’s over, I’m not going to stay here arguing with you guys'.

"I left there and our team was third in the league, three or four points behind top. Qualified for the round-of-16 or quarter-finals of the Champions League. But there was this bad environment, that situation.

"I don’t know if I had continued, what would have happened. But it was interrupted. There, I got upset.

"They’ll say: 'Oh, because you didn’t speak English perfectly'. Of course, I did not. I didn’t speak English perfectly. But I understood perfectly.

"We understood, with my English, and the English that was spoken there, we understood perfectly."